Well, this isn’t good news for them. Sounds like maybe Cantrell had been financially mismanaging things?
[Saturday-morning update]
Here’s an update from Jeff Foust. I wonder why Sequoia pulled out?
Phineas Gage And Kitty Genovese
Are they psychology tall tales?
FISA Court Abuse
How many heads will roll over it next month?
Not enough, judging by history, but maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised.
Tighter Gun Laws
…will leave libertarians better armed than most.
Sounds good to me.
Nanoracks
Jeff Manber says that space companies need to talk to each other more.
We came to the conclusion in our study … [that] there is no one company that can do commercial. One company does not make a market. … You need an ecosystem. You need compares that are doing things and other companies that use that and begin to put it into their business plan.
You also need advances in communications, like getting data down [to Earth] using advanced technology. You need orbital tugs to move hardware between [free flying commercial space stations] and the International Space Station. You need reentry vehicles, and a cost effective way to bring biopharma products and products made in microgravity like fiber optics back to Earth. What we laid out in our plan was a road map that has the government as one of many customers and a private sector that knows what each other is doing and can plan accordingly.
I’m in discussion with him, and others.
The Lie That Will Not Die
Joe Biden continues to double down on it.
And he continues to be a gaffe machine.
Politifact(!) calls out Biden on more of his lies about Trump.
Did they have a problem when he said that Romney would put blacks “back in chains”?
Blue Origin
A conversation about their ambitions with CEO Bob Smith.
Britain
Amazon Delivery Robots
The El Paso Manifesto
Has anyone actually read it?
He seems to be an ecoterrorist. But among many other things, that’s inconvenient to The Narrative.
[Update a while later]
Now the owner of 8-Chan says that the shooter wasn’t the one who uploaded the manifesto. So that means it’s likely that he didn’t even write it.
But at least, unlike the Dayton fascist, we have him to question.
[Update late morning]
Sorry, first link was missing. Fixed now.
[Afternoon update]
“In a sense, we were lucky with the terrorists from faraway places. We weren’t with the ones from the suburbs of Dallas, and the traditional tools of intelligence and organized-crime investigation probably are not going to prove effective in dealing with these. None of the major gun-control measures under discussion would do much to prevent these acts, either, and many of them would do nothing at all. (We should understand that for the gun-control lobby, these horrifying crimes are only convenient pretexts; they want to prevent the legal sale and use of firearms irrespective of any effect on mass shootings or ordinary crime; their motivation is almost purely cultural and tribal — Icky rednecks and their icky guns.) That so many self-proclaimed do-gooders turn first and instinctively to gutting the Bill of Rights and suspending due process for socially marginal types and purported subversives tells us only that political power must be kept from those who desire it most. When the Democrats propose new constraints on Americans’ constitutional rights — and not only the right to keep and bear arms — and when it is clear that those constraints would do nothing at all to prevent massacres like the one in El Paso, it is fair to ask what their real motives are and why they apparently are unable to be honest about them with the public.”